Noosa in Queensland, Australia

... and Berardo's above. Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, Queensland. 37/365

At the Yacht Club in Noosa. Gold in July

Noosa River

Rain late afternoon at Noosa Yacht Club. Then some blue sky appeared, creating these reflections. 42/365

Laguna Bay, Noosa mid winter :-)

At the Noosa Yacht Club

At the Noosa Yacht Club.

At Hilton Esplanade on the Noosa River in Queensland. Always a delight to see these colourful native birds. There are flocks of them living around the Noosa River. Usually up in the treetops and they are constantly on the move, flying between the river and the hinterland.

At the 2015 Noosa Beach Classic Car Show. Noosa Beach Classic Car Club began in 1988, the first event ... 17 cars for the first "Classic Car Show" in response to the Hastings Street traders request to join in their "Street Party" to promote the Hastings St area.

Very busy on Noosa Main Beach. A Bank holiday weekend, school holidays and the Noosa Beach Classic Car Show.

New Year's Eve at Noosa Harbour. Sunset Cruises on the Noosa Ferries.

Sunday challenge - Flag Coffee and ice cart on the boardwalk at Noosa Heads in Queensland. The flag has three elements on a blue background: the Union Jack, the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross. ... Below the Union Jack is a white Commonwealth, or Federation, star. It has seven points representing the unity of the six states and the territories of the Commonwealth of Australia.The star is also featured on the Commonwealth Coat of Arms. The Southern Cross is shown on the flag in white. It is a constellation of five stars that can only be seen from the southern hemisphere and is a reminder of Australia’s geography. pmc.gov.au/government/australian-national-flag

We took the ferry on the Noosa River, from Tewantin to Noosa Heads, had brunch at Bistro C, and wandered along the boardwalk and Hastings Street. The beach was busy! Saturday challenge - New Year's resolution. The ancient Babylonians are said to have been the first people to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also the first to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the new year—though for them the year began not in January but in mid-March, when the crops were planted. During a massive 12-day religious festival known as Akitu, the Babylonians crowned a new king or reaffirmed their loyalty to the reigning king. They also made promises to the gods to pay their debts and return any objects they had borrowed. These promises could be considered the forerunners of our New Year’s resolutions. If the Babylonians kept to their word, their (pagan) gods would bestow favor on them for the coming year. If not, they would fall out of the gods’ favor—a place no one wanted to be. A similar practice occurred in ancient Rome, after the reform-minded emperor Julius Caesar tinkered with the calendar and established January 1 as the beginning of the new year circa 46 B.C. Named for Janus, the two-faced god whose spirit inhabited doorways and arches, January had special significance for the Romans. Believing that Janus symbolically looked backwards into the previous year and ahead into the future, the Romans offered sacrifices to the deity and made promises of good conduct for the coming year. www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions

Noosa Festival of Surfing 2-10 March Laguna Bay, Noosa Main Beach, Queensland. We visited the Vonu (Fiji beer) bar, later, on the 7th March, fun on the beach.

Noosa River, Queensland

Pavement cafe, Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, Queensland. Across the road a boutique, Copenhagen Ice Cream, and the beachfront apartments.

Bistro C, Noosa Boardwalk, Queensland

Tommy Bahama's, Hastings Street, Noosa, Queensland.